Voting Rights Act

...the turn of the 21st century there were some 5,000, and the number of African American members of the U.S. Congress had increased from 6 to about 40. In what was widely perceived as a test case, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, et al. (2009), the Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act. In Shelby...

...power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate elections, as well as a violation of the “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty” among the states, which the court had recognized in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. One v. Holder (2009). Notably, the court did not find fault with the VRA’s Section 5 (which now became unenforceable) or with the notion...